Project Gutenberg 2004-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 118 Camp, Wadsworth 1879 1936 Camp, Charles Wadsworth The Abandoned Room Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team “The Abandoned Room” by Wadsworth Camp is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the death of Silas Blackburn, an old man who dies mysteriously at his secluded estate, known as the Cedars. As the narrative unfolds, suspicion falls on his grandson, Bobby Blackburn, who is portrayed as a young man with a troubled lifestyle, fearful of becoming penniless due to a change in his grandfather’s will. The opening of the story establishes a tense atmosphere with Katherine, Bobby's cousin, keeping vigil at the Cedars on the night of Silas Blackburn's death. Silas exhibits signs of fear and unrest prior to his demise, hinting at an unseen threat. As Katherine confronts her growing unease, we learn of Bobby's absence and potential conflict between him and his grandfather. The narrative is rich with suspense, as after Silas’s death, a detective named Howells suggests foul play and begins investigating, suggesting that Bobby may be more involved in the mystery than he realizes. This sets the stage for a tangled web of suspicion, family dynamics, and the search for truth in the wake of tragedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mystery fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 540184 540063 2024-10-05T07:00:11.053376 2023-10-05T07:20:43.299902 text/html text/html 540177 540056 2024-10-05T07:00:11.374371 2023-10-05T07:20:43.522921 text/html text/html 262258 2024-10-05T07:00:21.121348 application/epub+zip 271160 2024-10-05T07:00:14.323360 application/epub+zip 261401 2024-10-05T07:00:13.047406 application/epub+zip 487857 2024-10-05T07:00:26.207315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 455253 2024-10-05T07:00:20.284342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 428361 2022-09-05T10:22:46.194766 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 471347 471277 2024-10-05T07:00:10.416400 2023-10-05T07:20:42.827907 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 472731 2009-01-08T15:27:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 172284 2009-01-08T15:28:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18661 2024-10-05T07:00:26.334287 application/rdf+xml 13550 2024-10-05T07:00:13.590351 image/jpeg 3529 2024-10-05T07:00:13.319423 image/jpeg 257905 2024-10-05T07:00:11.417411 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog